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Dean A. Croshaw


Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
Drawer E
Aiken SC 29802
803-725-5873 (office)
803-645-0924 (cell)
803-725-8228 (pre-PCR lab)
803-725-5881 (post-PCR lab)
FAX 803.725.3309
e-mail:croshaw@srel.edu


Education

  • Ph.D. student, 2001-present, University of New Orleans and Savannah River Ecology
    Laboratory, Major advisors: Joseph H. K. Pechmann and Travis C. Glenn
    Major: Conservation Biology
    Dissertation: Using microsatellite markers to investigate the occurrence and
    consequences of polyandry in salamanders
  • M.S. 2001, University of Oklahoma, Major advisor: Janalee P. Caldwell
    Major: Zoology
    Thesis: The adaptive significance of nest attendance in the marbled salamander,
    Ambystoma opacum
  • B.A. 1999, Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana), Major advisor: John B. Iverson
    Major: Biology

Work Experience

  • Current Appointment: Board of Regents Superior Graduate Fellow, University of New
    Orleans, 2001-2005
  • 1999-2001 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Zoology, University of
    Oklahoma
  • October 2000-January 2001 Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia,
    Graduate Research Program, Dr. J. Whitfield Gibbons
  • May-July 2000 Graduate Research Assistant in the lab of Dr. Lawrence Weider,
    population genetics of Daphnia with molecular techniques (allozyme analysis,
    PCR, DNA extraction, electrophoresis, restriction digests)
  • June 1999 Field assistant with Dr. John Iverson
  • Spring 1999 Teaching assistant for field course in Ornithology
  • 1998-1999 Science tutor for undergraduate students
  • Summer 1998 Research fellow at University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)
  • May 1998 Earlham College Biology Department, Conservation Efforts and Eradication
    of Alliaria petiolata, general labor.
  • 1996-1999 Staff member of Joseph Moore Museum of Natural History (Curator of
    Mammalogy, Specimen Preparator for Ornithology, Mammalogy, and
    Herpetology, Live Animal Caretaker, and Trail Maintenance)

Research Support

  • 2003 Sigma Xi, Grant-in-Aid
  • 2001-2005 University of New Orleans, Board of Regents Fellowship, Research Funds
  • 2000 University of Oklahoma, Graduate Student Senate, Creative Activity Grant
  • 1999 University of Oklahoma, Graduate Student Senate, Creative Activity Grant
  • 1998 Research experience for undergraduates at UMBS for "A dorsal color
    polymorphism and cryptic behavior in newly-metamorphosed northern leopard
    frogs, Rana pipiens"

Publications

Croshaw, D. A. 2000. Geographic distribution: Rana catesbeiana. Herpetol. Rev.
31:252.

Iverson, J. B., D. Hearne, J. Watters, D. Croshaw, and J. Larson. 2000. Chelydra
serpentina. Density and Biomass. Herpetol. Rev. 31:252.

Croshaw, D. A. 2002. Geographic distribution: Ambystoma tigrinum. Herpetol. Rev.
33:216.

Croshaw, D.A., and T.C. Glenn. 2003. Seven polymorphic microsatellite DNA loci from
the red-spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens). Molec. Ecol. Notes. 3:514-516.

Croshaw, D.A., and T.C. Glenn. 2003. Polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite DNA
loci from the southern dusky salamander (Desmognathus auriculatus). Molec.
Ecol. Notes. 3:623-625.

Manuscripts Submitted

Croshaw, D.A. Collecting tissue for biochemical analysis. In: Gibbons, J.W., T.S.B.
Akre, R.N. Reed, and M.E. Dorcas, eds. Inventory and Monitoring Reptiles:
Recommended techniques for the southeast.

Croshaw, D.A. Cryptic behavior is independent of color morph in juvenile northern
leopard frogs. J. Herpetol.

Presentations

2003 The adaptive significance of nesting behavior in marbled salamanders. Animal
Behavior Society, Boise, Idaho.

2001 The adaptive significance of nest attendance in the marbled salamander. Louisiana
Herpetology Research Group

1998 Cryptic behavior is independent of color morph in juvenile northern leopard frogs,
UMBS.

Fellowships and Awards

  • 2001-present Board of Regents Superior Graduate Fellowship, Dept. of Biological
    Sciences (U. of New Orleans)
  • 2001 Blanche Adams Summer Graduate Scholarship, Dept. of Zoology (U. of Oklahoma)
  • 2000 Blanche Adams Graduate Scholarship, Department of Zoology (U. of Oklahoma)
  • 2000 Graduate Research Assistantship, Dept. of Zoology (U. of Oklahoma)
  • 1999 Graduate Fellowship, School of Natural Sciences (Utah St. U., declined)
  • 1999 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Dept. of Zoology (U. of Oklahoma)
  • 1999 Phi Beta Kappa Induction (Earlham College)
  • 1999 Millard S. Markle Award in Biology (Earlham College)
  • 1999 Earlham College, Division of Natural Sciences, Graves Scholarship for
    Graduate Study
  • 1999 Earlham College, Department of Biology, Honors Rating on Senior Comprehensive
    Exams
  • 1998 REU Fellow at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)
  • 1995-1999 Earlham Honors Scholarship
  • 1995 National Merit Scholarship Finalist
  • 1995 Robert Byrd Scholarship

Teaching Experience

Introduction to Zoology Laboratory, Principles of Ecology, Ornithology,
Ecology (personal tutoring), Cell Biology (personal tutoring)

Academic Societies

Phi Beta Kappa
Animal Behavior Society
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

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